Look out for shady hotel rooms

September 7, 2016

Have you ever booked a hotel online and after arriving thought “wow, I wish I had a blacklight?” Maybe you were surfing the web for your honeymoon suite on Expedia.ca or KAYAK.com. Maybe you were clicking through Trivago.ca — you told your partner it was just to see if there were any last minute deals but amen Trivago guy, amen.

Go with the flow

By Nate Smelle FOR THE LAST MONTH EVERY shred of spare time I have had has gone into preparing for the big flow. The first ...

Not just a horse

By Nate Smelle THERE ARE MANY PERKS TO living in this landscape we reside in here in North Hastings. Luckily for us we are blessed ...

Open wide, please

Bancroft town council recently made a major decision, involving hundreds of thousands of dollars. They decided to take over the town’s recycling operations, which are now contracted out.

Making progress

By Nate Smelle WHAT IS PROGRESS? I started thinking about this question again while putting together the progress report found in this week’s edition. By ...

A tragic but sweet final moment

There’s nothing quite like going to a live show. The energy of the crowd, the being close to your idols — the gratification of knowing it isn’t just you who listens to that band — all of it comes together to create a feeling you really can’t get anywhere else.

Boneheads body-shame athletes

Every person who body-shamed Monro or Habte should have to do a single day of their training regimes — and it should be broadcast on live television across the world. No pressure right? Be sexy and destroy the world stage single-handedly, no sweat. Only one rule: no defibrillators allowed on-site.